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HEALTH CHECK-UP CAMP:
In this reporting year the Society have organized 2 Nos. general Health Camp & Medicine Distribution and one Nos. Eye Camp in the remote part of the district. Details of these camps are as follows:-
Date | Place | No of Patients attend | Doctors |
31/12/2017 | Kurikhala | 245 | Dr. Shibnath Paul, Dr. Suparna Das Lala, Dr. Moinak Das & Dr. Debotosh Paul |
25/02/2018 | Suterkandi | 324 | Dr. Shibnath Paul, Dr. Suparna Das Lala, Dr. Moinak Das, Dr. Debotosh Paul & Dr. Tanushree Ghosh. |
The Eye Camp was organized with the help of Lions Eye Hospital, Silchar on 21/09/2017 at Pirotikor village of Badarpur Circle. Dr. Joya Nath, Ophthalmologist & Surgeon did screening of 218 Nos. of patients who attended the camp. Out of these patients 16 Nos. of patients were identified for cataract operation and the operation was done on 22/09/2017 at Lions Eye Hospital, Silchar.
TELE-MEDICINE CENTRE (TMC):
The Karimganj Red Cross Society setup a Tele-Medicine Centre at the Red Cross Hospital on 15.02.2015 in collaboration with “The Cachar Cancer Hospital & Research Centre (CCHRC)”. The Centre remains open 24 hours and is manned by the CCHRC. On the last Thursday of every month a team of doctors attends the OPD for checkup of the cancer patients. Dr. Rabi Kannan and other doctors also regularly visit this Centre. Sometimes doctors from foreign countries visit this centre. The centre has given tremendous relief to cancer patients regarding wastage of time, money and also visit to Silchar with another helper. The number of the cancer patients visited this centre within the reported period is 680.
Disaster management Programme :
The society has eighty nos. Social Emergency Response Volunteers (SERV) and all are trained on First Aid and Disaster Management and with their cooperation we have organized WASH Programme in the various schools of the District, Mock Drill on First Aid and Disaster Management etc. in collaboration with the State Branch. In the last three years the Branch has successfully conducted the following activities of SERV Programme :
Sl. No. | Name of Activity | No of Program conducted | No of Participants |
01 | Awareness Programme on WASH | 12 Nos. | 478 |
02 | Outreach Activity on Linkage of Govt. Schemes | 02 Nos. | 66 |
03. | Orientation Programme on SERV | 02 Nos. | 69 |
04. | Observance of Disaster Risk Reduction Day | 03 Nos. | 148 |
05. | Refresher Training of Volunteers | 03 Nos. | 71 |
06. | Vulnerability Capacity Assessment Activity | 06 Nos. | 255 |
07. | Mock Drill Activity | 12 Nos. | 600 (Appox) |
In the year 2019 Indian Red Cross Society, Assam State Branch, has launched the “Partners for Resilience (PfR) Program” with support from Indian Red Cross, National Headquarter & International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent (IFRC) in the three districts of the state namely Karimganj, Kamrup & Karbi Anglong. The PfR program is based on Integrated Risk Management,
Ecosystem Management and Climate change Adoption. PfR uses the approach to build local resilience through community based disaster risk reduction interventions that addresses weather and climate-change-shocks and ecological degradation. The IRCS, Karimganj District Branch is proud that our district has been selected for implementation of the PfR programme as a pilot manner & the management of the Branch has selected a Goan Panchayet “Malua-Srigouri” for implementation of this pilot project and according to the discussion with the Panchayet Body of Malua-Srigouri G.P. the following three revenue villages have been selected for implementation of this project.
The field activities on Hazard Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (HVCA) of the PfR Programme has completed on 15th March’2019. During the field activities the volunteers of Indian Red Cross Society (Karimganj, Karbi Anglong, Kamrup district & State H.Q.) collected data and assessed socio-economic status, hazard & vulnerability through Public Meetings with villagers, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRI), Inter-Personal Communication (IPC) etc. with the help of PRI members of the concerned villages and we found that the cooperation & participation of villagers specially women & aged persons was excellent.
NATIONAL SCHOOL SAFETY PROGRAMME :
Between the State Disaster Management Authority, Govt. of Assam & Indian Red Cross Society, Assam State Branch a MoU was signed for conducting the First Aid and Life saving Skills Training programme for school teachers in the different educational blocks of Assam. Accordingly the state branch gave responsibilities to our district branch to cover all the three districts of Barak Valley. 4nos. of Master Trainees from our Branch has engaged in these programmes as Resource Persons. 17 nos. of the training programmes throughout the Barak Valley were completed. In addition to that our branch has organized two nos. of District Level Training Prgorammes of School Focal Point Teachers & Head of Institutions for preparation of School Disaster Management Plan in collaboration with District Disaster Management Authority, Karimganj.
RELIEF ACTIVITY :
Sl. No. | Date of distribution | Place of distribution | No. of family package distributed |
01. | 08-10-2017 | Govt. H.S. School, Karimganj | 531 |
02. | 09-10-2017 | Basail market shed, Badarpur | 183 |
03. | 10-10-2017 | Nilambazar Police Station | 405 |
04. | 11-10-2017 | Patharkandi Rabindra Bhawan | 207 |
05. | 12-07-2017 | Suprakandi Swarupananda Institute | 174 |
VISIT OF REPRESENTATIVE FROM IFRC, NEW DELHI & HONGKONG RED CROSS :
On 14th November’2019, the representative from International Federation of Red Cross, New Delhi Smt. Minu Bali & representative from Hongkong Red Cross Smt. Lalita Gurung along with Sri Laba Sharma & Sri Raj Sharma, State Branch visited our society.
The main objective of monitoring visit was to enhance understanding of the status for implementation of Social Emergency Response Volunteers Programme & strengthen the relationship among Hongkong Red Cross and IRCS & IFRC.
During their monitoring visit the following activities were conducted by our branch :
After completion of their monitoring visit they shared their views with the Hony. Secretary & Coordinator of our branch at Hotel Nakshatra. Details of their observation and feedback are as follows :
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUILDING :
A grant of Rs. 10.00 Lacs (Rupees Ten Lacs only) was received from Border Area Dev. Fund of Govt. of Assam through the good offices of Sri Kamalakshya Dey Purkayastha, Hon’ble MLA, North Karimganj LAC. The 1st Floor of the DDRC Building complex within the Red Cross Society campus was constructed with this grant and this work was executed by the PWD Building Division, Karimganj.
GANDHAI STATIC DISPENCARY :
Electrification of the Gandhai Static Dispensary has been done on the efforts of the local public, Sri Kamalaksha Dey Purkayastha, MLA North Karimganj and the Society itself. Due to non-availability of doctors, this Static dispensary is unable to serve the purpose. Recently the Society has got a doctor and is going to reactivate this dispensary.
OBSERVANCE OF THE NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL DAYS:
The Society observes the following National and International Days in the reporting years with much importance. This gives a scope of generating awareness about various health-related activities by using the same platform.
STAFF STRENGTH OF THE SOCIETY:
The Society has got two categories of staff— one is technical and the other is general. Of them some are full-time and some are part-time or visiting. The present staff strength (Up to March 31, 2019) of the Society is as follows:-
Sl. No | Category of Staff | No of Staff | ||
Part Time/ Visiting | Full Time | Total | ||
01. | Doctor (Gynecologist) | 02 | 02 | 04 |
02. | Doctor (Pediatrician) | 02 | 00 | 02 |
03. | Doctor (Medicine) | 02 | 00 | 02 |
04. | Doctor (Anesthetist) | 00 | 01 | 01 |
05. | Doctor (Pathologist) | 01 | 00 | 01 |
06. | Doctor (Radiologist) | 01 | 00 | 01 |
07. | Doctor (R.M.O.) | 03 | 00 | 03 |
08. | Radiographer | 01 | 00 | 01 |
09. | GNM | 00 | 02 | 02 |
10. | ANM | 00 | 06 | 06 |
11. | Nursing Assistant | 00 | 26 | 26 |
12. | OT Staffs | 00 | 03 | 03 |
13. | Office Assistance | 00 | 04 | 04 |
14. | Laboratory Technician | 02 | 02 | 04 |
15. | Driver | 00 | 02 | 02 |
16. | Grade –IV staffs | 00 | 02 | 02 |
17. | Gate keepers | 00 | 05 | 05 |
18. | Cleaning Staff | 00 | 08 | 08 |
19. | Ward Girl | 00 | 02 | 02 |
20. | Medicine Centre Staff | 00 | 05 | 05 |
21. | Electrician | 00 | 01 | 01 |
22. | Care taker (Gandhai Dispensary) | 00 | 01 | 01 |
MEMBERSHIP TO THE SOCIETY:
The society invites application every year for obtaining membership to the society as per Rule of the Red Cross Act. The members strength of the society in the last three years are as follows:
Sl. No. | Category of Members | Strength of Member | |||
2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | ||
01. | Patron Member | 02 | 02 | 02 | 02 |
02. | Life Member | 188 | 188 | 190 | 190 |
03. | Life Associate Member | 281 | 281 | 279 | 279 |
04. | Annual Member | 04 | 04 | 31 | 31 |
05. | Annual Associate member | 34 | 34 | 67 | 67 |
06. | Institutional Member | 01 | 01 | 01 | 01 |
Total | 507 | 507 | 570 | 570 |
DONATION & CONTRIBUTIONS :
I, on behalf of the Karimganj Red Cross Society, express our gratitude to the following distinguished persons for their contribution (Cash/kind) to the Society during the period 2016-17 to 2019-20.
Sl. No. | Name of Donors | Address of the Donors | Purpose / Particulars of Donation | Value/ Amount | Date of Donation |
01 | Dr. Monotosh Das |
| Dopler Machain | — | 22/04/2016 |
02 | Pranab Deb | JD Steel, Karimganj | 2 Nos. Ceiling Fan | — | 25/04/2016 |
03 | Gautam Choudhury | Saradapally, Karimganj | MCWC Development | 10,000.00 | 16/01/2017 |
04 | Monideepa Banik |
| One Fouler steel Bed | 12,000.00 | 28/05/2016 |
05 | Sukanya Das (Roy) | Manasha Drug Distributors, Subashnagar, Kxj | Two Fouler steel Bed | 24,000.00 | 08/09/2016 |
06 | Jogobrata Roy | Ramani Sagar Road, Karimganj | One Fouler steel Bed | 12,000.00 | 27/11/2016 |
07 | Swapan Choudhury | Jayram Pally, Medla, Kxj | One Suction Machine | — | 02/07/2016 |
08 | Dr. Sewali Kalita | Nilmony Road, Karimganj | One Fouler steel Bed | 12,000.00 | 21/02/2017 |
09 | Gaurav Roy | East Bazar, Karimganj | MCWC Development | 4,000.00 | 02/03/2017 |
10 | Manoj Gong | Bharat Medical Store, Bridge Road, Kxj | Five Nos. Fouler steel Bed | —- | 02/03/2017 |
11 | Prasanta Kr. Choudhury | R.C. Das Road, Karimganj | MCWC Development | 5,500.00 | 27/03/2017 & 29/03/2018 |
12 | Pradip Kr. Roy | Roy Nagar, Karimganj | One Fouler steel Bed | 12,000.00 | 16/06/2017 |
13 | Principal Vikam Chand Balika Bidyalaya | Roy Nagar, Karimganj | Red Cross Activity (From Students) | 5,000.00 | 13/02/2018 |
14 | Ruchira Chakraborty | Laithumukhra, Shillong | MCWC Development | 1,31,792.00 | 20/12/2018 |
Total Cash Donation | 2,28,292.00 |
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